Sometimes the news, hot off the press, turns out to be re-heated leftovers. But while some foods should not be re-cooked, the latest declassification appears worth a second feast.
The “new” news is historic: “The FBI said Monday night that it is ‘closely’ reviewing newly declassified memos,” reports John Solomon at Just the News. The declassified material shows that “the intelligence community kept secret for years evidence raising questions about the credibility and bias of the main accuser in President Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment case.”
The CIA analyst who posed as a “whistleblower” about Trump’s controversial phone call asking that the Ukraine government look into Biden family corruption in the country was a Biden supporter. Deep blue. A known hater of Trump.
He was also a friend of “fired FBI Director James Comey and [Peter] Strzok,” the latter notorious from his work during the heady days of the Russiagate biz.
The analyst’s name is redacted in the newly declassified documents, but, Solomon notes, other media outlets identify him as “Eric Ciaramella.”
Why does that name seem familiar? Because Ciaramella’s identity has been an open secret for over half a decade, at least since October 2019.
Though the name was unsuccessfully protected by Adam Schiff, now a U.S. Senator from California, the biggest secret was his partisanship, and the weakness of his evidence, both “kept from Trump’s impeachment proceedings by ex-Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Monday.
“Gabbard accused the former watchdog of ‘weaponizing’ the whistle-blower process to hurt Trump.”
Not exactly shocking.
Which the ever-increasing ranks of Trump critics may now regret. How many times can they impeach the same president?
At some point a Never Cry Wolf element comes into play.
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Many Presidents have committed impeachable offenses, and Trump did so in his first term. But both the Democratic and Republican Party resist acknowledging that actions of a sort also committed by Presidents from their own parties are indeed impeachable. Nor does the deep state want to be constrained by the Constitution.
So, in Trump’s first term and also after his first term, the Democrats and the deep state did not focus upon his genuine offenses, but manufactured evidence of crimes that he had not committed and that they would not expect a President from their own party to commit.
This is defame the messenger crap. Nowhere here do I see any indication that Trump didn’t say what he was accused of saying in the Ukraine call. Did he say it or didn’t he? Nothing else matters….